The ai wave should have been the best opportunity to start doing great software. It is turning out that we are just producing more slop than ever
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"In the future, we hope to have no Romans in Britain. That's the end goal" (Caratacus) 😂
AI shows that writing code has never been the real bottleneck.
Writing code that is maintainable, easy to reason about, and easy to prove correct is the real one.
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A lot of changes in sight. Everything happens for a reason
1910 Women could wear pants 1920 White women could vote 1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of) 1965 Black women could vote 19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce 1972 Women could get birth control, without a man 1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally 1974 Women could buy a home, without a man 1988 Women could own their own business, without Nomesticial protection agains 2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion
Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.
This will be the year in which I decide that I need to learn more about p2p and decentralized systems
Coffee! I need more coffee!
Started reading about ATProto. I’ve found another deep rabbit hole. Damn!
Man I'm watching Tech YouTube videos from ~10 years ago and they feel like a window to such a radically different world. People used to care about shit.
For International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting the contributions of just a few EFF Award recipients from the last decade, whose work to protect privacy, speech, and creativity online has had a global impact.
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The age of free info on the internet may be coming to a close.
Instead of learning how to prompt, first learn how to think logically
Be responsible for the shit you deploy in production: the concise definition of what it means DevOps
With so many more non-traditional coders being turned onto coding via agents, this is one of those rare demographic and platform shifts.
So if any APL/Datalog/Haskell fans want to indoctrinate new programmers, now is the time. Notation as a Tool for Thought as a way to prompt.
A type that tells a partial story is a scam!
Do yourself a favor and ditch types that are too wide.
Experts have warned that it is likely impossible to fully insulate consumers from the extra power demand coming from the vast expansion of data centers to run AI.
Let's recap. The proposal is to stop writing code and let the LLM generate it, while I take on the review which is time-consuming and no substitute for proper automated form of validation.
Either we treat code as a commodity, or we treat it as an asset. We need to pick one.
Looking in this direction 👀
This is one of those days when I wish I had chosen another job
today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels.
read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed